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The city of Palo Alto announced today that its controversial police chief will retire shortly. Palo Alto is home to Stanford University and many high tech companies and is in the midst of a controversy over racial profiling sparked by statements made by Police Chief Lynne Johnson. Photo: *Rally and March on City of Palo Alto In Response to Racial Profiling* courtesy of the Raging Grannies....

Part street theater, part ceremony of recognition, these protesters on the San Francisco peninsula said it in drama, song and signs: *Will Your Marriage be Next?* *Protect Us from Tyranny of the Majority* *If anyone has reason why these two should not be wed...move back to Utah!* All Photos copyrighted by Justin Miel except second to last photo by bdu under Creative Commons License....

A demonstration pulled together on very short notice drew hundreds of protesters to the SF peninsula town of Mountain View. The Raging Grannies had to work fast to organize, but their team of *Granny Brides* were prepped for action from a similar demo a few days earlier in nearby Palo Alto. So they revved up their Taxi Crate amplifier and went to town...to DOWNtown Mountain View, that is, where they met up up with like-minded folks, many of whom are also active in the immigrant rights and a...

Pascal Lamy, head of the World Trade Organization, argues that free trade in a regulated environment drives economic growth worldwide. Speaking at Stanford University, he dismissed claims that free trade is responsible for job losses. Yet in every case where trade barriers have been dropped between structurally dissimilar economies, free trade has introduced profound socio-economic distortions, income inequality, and job displacement....

A pattern of racial traffic stops in Palo Alto is statistically clear. 

At a *Rally Against Racial Profiling* on November 9 Goro Mitchell, East Palo Alto activist and Planning Commission member, said that 56 percent of all traffic stops for "vehicular failure", such as tail or brake lights not working, are for cars driven by African Americans or Latinos. 
Two young men, one Latino and one African American, have created a T-shirt to draw attention to this injustice. Story, photos by R. Ro...

All photos by Justin Miel. Please contact Justin@gotmiel.com for permission to reprint. The Raging Granny Brides Sang "Invalidate Prop 8" at Demo in Palo Alto on November 10, 2008....

Tamala Williams wears an Eracism hat. She spoke of her 43 years living with racism in the Palo Alto environs. Tamala joined about 200 others at the *March on Palo Alto Against Racial Profiling* on Sunday, November 9th....

Palo Alto's police chief said that her officers would be stopping African American males to determine who they were and what they were doing in the city of Palo Alto. Community leaders including the mayor of Palo Alto expressed shock at the chief's statement. Congresswoman Anna Eshoo said the police chief should rescind her comments and orders or resign. A march and rally against racial profiling is scheduled for Sunday, November 9....

Photo: *No on 8* activists pass out yard signs and buttons in downtown Palo Alto's Lytton Plaza. If the number of yard signs are any indication, residents of Palo Alto, California are strongly against Proposition 8 which would reverse the decision of the California's Supreme Court and eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry. Even former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young and his wife, Barbara, both Mormons, have posted *No on 8* yard signs in front of their Palo Alto...

California Youth Skip Halloween to Protest Scary Anti-Immigrant Policies- Denounce Immigration Raids and Deportations...